Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder & Justice in Ireland with Henry Hemming

How far should a spy go for the good of his country?
Join Spy Museum Historian and Curator Dr. Andrew Hammond in conversation with Henry Hemming, author of Four Shots in the Night, a true story of spies, murder, and justice in Northern Ireland. The brutal 1986 killing of Frank Hegarty, a British spy who infiltrated the IRA, touched off a decades-long search for justice. His death was a major scandal, and years later, it was reported that his murderer might have been a second British spy ordered to kill an undercover colleague.
Hemming, the author of seven books including The Ingenious Mr. Pyke, did extensive research and interviewing to unspin the tangled web that has surrounded the murder-a murder that inspired a vast criminal investigation 30 years later in 2016. He and Hammond will discuss the reality of this complex story, its far-reaching political reverberations, and the conclusions Hemming has drawn about how the Troubles may have actually come to an end.
Following the conversation, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.
Auto-generated closed captioning will be available for this program.

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42:43 one thing I always struggled to understand here was if the British were running not only the majority of the army council as mentioned here but also of the internal security unit who were at the time responsible for vetting all new recruits as I understand it, surely the level of control and penetration is higher than 1/3. I always thought it was only because some of the rural cells made a point to have nothing to do with the ISU that they remained effective.

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12:10 I thought Scap famously didn’t drink.. a lot of this recruitment story I thought got pretty thoroughly debunked in Richard O’Rawe’s Steakknife book last year.

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